Erin Aubry Kaplan
Erin Aubry Kaplan is an author, journalist and essayist who has been writing about black Los Angeles and wider issues since 1992. She teaches creative nonfiction at Antioch University Los Angeles and current events at the OASIS center in the Crenshaw district.
Is surfing a civil right? Maybe not, but the film "White Wash" uncovers the racial history that lies beneath the sport's sunny surface
As the Forum prepares for renovation, AEG disses Inglewood as a place where entertainment magic can't happen like it does in L.A. Those are fighting words.
The face of the 1992 civil unrest was, in many ways, just a face.
This morning pressed on big questions of liberty, progress, and the fate of a lost dog.
Brown is the new black, something that can be both troubling and inspiring when you're trying to be a role model for the future.
Memorial Day was an occasion for me to remember -- not the war dead, but the price of social victory discussed at a backyard reunion of childhood friends.
It's great that the Forum, the one-time crown jewel of Inglewood, will live on with new ownersip. But at what cost?
Losing Donna Summer, we lose yet another towering figure of R&B who represented an era of black music we tend to dismiss. But that would be a mistake.
After more than thirty years, the home-grown band the BusBoys are still making music worth more than the minimum wage
The lessons of adult education are sublime, but in the age of austerity it's the latest thing on LAUSD's chopping block
Inspired development, to say nothing of redevelopment, didn't really happen after 1992. But then, what did you expect?
The new baseball field at Darby Park in Inglewood means a lot, but isn't nearly enough